Thursday, May 07, 2009

Miami Herald's "deception-filled feast of fun about Bolivia"

By Otto Rock

Inca Kola News

May 6, 2009

When The Miami Herald starts a report with.....

LA PAZ, Bolivia -- With some newspapers and broadcast outlets relentlessly exposing the government's shortcomings, President Evo Morales and his supporters say the privately-owned media have sided with his opponents yada yada continues here

....you just know you're in for a deception-filled feast of fun about Bolivia. What follows those opening lines is pretty much as you'd expect, laying heavily on anti-Evo BS, slipping cute words like 'autocrat' in there and trying to make out that all the opposition press has been doing in Bolivia is highlighting cases of government corruption. No mention about the racism or support for illegal separatists, or revisionist histories about the Pando Massacre or the innocent chats Ruben Costas enjoyed with then US ambassador Goldberg. All those squeaky-clean reporters have been doing is fighting the good fight against graft...

(click here to view entire report)

3 comments:

John Enders said...

Here's the link to the full article in case your readers would like to see it, instead of just reading the Inka News nonsense: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1034167.html
Thanks,
John Enders

Justin Delacour said...

Here's the link to the full article in case your readers would like to see it, instead of just reading the Inka News nonsense: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1034167.html
Thanks,
John Enders
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Great, but there's already a link to your article in the excerpt (and in Inka Kola News' original critique of your report). I think Otto is more than happy to have folks read both your opinion and his so that they can draw their own conclusions.
Thanks,
Justin Delacour

Otto Rock said...

Dear John,

Thanks for showing your ignorance in my comments section today. Your evident lack of reading comprehension and the false, sweeping claims you condensed into so few words speak more of your qualities than I ever could.